Sentences with phrase «last ran a candidate»

When the Democrats last ran a candidate for that office in 2009, they received 31 percent.

Not exact matches

Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that country's next election as the Socialist party candidate.

A 20 - year veteran of the media industry with a resume listing a plethora of titles including president of Macmillan Publishing, chairman and CEO of Columbia House Company, and CEO of Freedom Communications, Flanders possessed the skill set and experience to hit the ground running — a consensus the Playboy search committee came to after a painstaking selection process that lasted six months and vetted more than 180 candidates.

As government insiders continue to run the company, institutional shareholders are likely to keep close tabs on their votes to ensure that they support independent, external candidates — something that can be difficult to manage with Brazil's complex proxy voting rules and last - minute nominations.

After losing the Wildrose Party nomination in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundre last weekend, some political watchers have speculated that he might join the Alberta Party, others believe he could run as an Independent candidate in the next election.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story ran last year, as part of a series about the faith lives of the leading Republican presidential candidates.

Pastors of congregations hoping for political clout, will not back a candidate who is running last in a three - man race.

The last time a presidential candidate told us that God told him to run for president he started two wars, destroyed the largest economy in the world (which was healthy when he got it btw) and killed thousands of Americans.

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

An exhausting, muscle - straining, four - days - a-week regimen — McNabb leads sessions that last month included Redskins running back Trung Candidate, NBA players Richard Jefferson and Luke Walton, plus college and high school athletes — but a romp nonetheless.

Going back to local politics after running for LG last year — even as Carl Paladino's VP candidate — must have been tough for Edwards, but he has never publicly expressed a desire to be state chairman.

Last month, another Gershman story — this time on the pension collected by Cuomo's running mate, Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy — provided fodder for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio to question the AG's judgment in selecting a preferred LG who, according to Lazio, was engaged in «double - dipping.»

A candidate forum for a vacant southern Brooklyn Assembly seat turned into a bitter verbal tussle over abortion last night — not between the two women running to represent the district, but between one of them and a civic leader in the audience.

The real reason is that Queens County Democratic Leader Joe Crowley has settled on Francisco Moya as his candidate, and Moya can't run in a special election because he only moved into the district last September.

Last night, NY1's Bobby Cuza caught up with the three GOP US Senate candidates that have been running for the seat to get their reaction to Bob Turner's decision to run.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

Cox hatched the idea at the GOP convention last month as it became increasingly clear that Long's ploy to tap Rick Lazio to run on Row D prior to the GOP gathering in hopes of blocking Cox's preferred gubernatorial candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, had succeeded.

It seems a long time ago since Diane Abbott was in the running to become the Labour candidate for mayor of London, but in the top spot this week is our report from last year on comments she made during her campaign in which she suggested the capital didn't need another white middle - aged man in charge.

Coyne's team were buoyed by this because they expected Len would not, or could not, run again, that they would be able to improve on last time's effort because they weren't starting from scratch now and the expectation that the vote on the Left of Unite would be fractured amongst a number of candidates.

The crowded field of declared candidates running for the Democratic nomination in the 21st congressional district shrank in the last two days after the formal entrance of former cable news Dylan Ratigan.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Republican congressional candidate Christopher Cox — the grandson of Richard Nixon — and his family members have poured close to $ 80,000 since the middle of last year into local Republican committees and campaigns in the district where Cox is running, POLITICO has learned.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advocate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

Langworthy helped bring another candidate, New York real - estate mogul Donald Trump, to Buffalo last year when he was considering a run for governor.

You'll see in some cases last year we had more than 50 squares on the ballot but really only nine candidates and they're all running on the same lines,» Zellner said.

The Democratic Senate candidates who are challenging incumbent Republicans are in an even worse fix, especially if they happen to be unfortunate enough as to be running against one of the three GOP members who crossed party lines at Cuomo's request last summer to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage.

Micah Sifry posted a fascinating analysis last night of the Obama campaign's takeover of a formerly volunteer - run MySpace site for the candidate, complete with dueling accusations and a lot of ill will all around.

On Capital Tonight last week, he told us he wouldn't drop out of the race if someone who is percieved to be a stronger candidate, like 2010 Comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, decided to run.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.

That's no small thing for a candidate, even if it seems basic: the last two Democrats to run in the 19th district, Sean Eldridge and Zephyr Teachout, were dogged by carpetbagging criticism in the battleground races.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advcoate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

Jim Kelly, the field director for two Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, posted this message on his Facebook page last Thursday: «Wanted: GOP candidates to run for gov, comptroller, attorney general, U.S. Senate.»

His Democratic opponent, Lew Simon, is running a low - funded, underdog campaign that was hampered last month by news that the candidate had an angioplasty a month before the general election.

«The likelihood that Edward Leigh might run as an ultra-traditionalist, way - off - the - radar candidate - a «barking horse», so to speak - shows that, amazingly, there are still some MPs who think the Tories have lost the last three elections because they are not sufficiently Right - wing.»

States with elections in 2015 held fewer general elections between partisan candidates and more incumbents ran for re-election than in the 2011 election cycle, the last time all four odd - year states held legislative elections.

The National Republican Congressional Committee sent a staffer out to the Golden State last week to search for and meet with potential candidates and convince them to run in competitive districts in San Diego, Palm Springs and Sacramento, according to a source with knowledge of the visit.

Indeed, the party, which has never run a candidate of its own, has not ruled out endorsing someone else this election year as its rank - and - file remain restive over Cuomo's fiscal agenda over the last three years.

This likely sends Republicans back to the drawing board for a candidate to run against Schneiderman, who has in the last year challenged policies backed by President Donald Trump's administration.

The new ballot line grew out of the Stop Common Core line that Astorino and statewide GOP candidates ran on last year.

Gillibrand also name - drops the Democratic Senate candidates running in key districts that could decide control of the chamber, including Buffalo's Marc Panepinto, who the governor is yet to endorse (Cuomo is torn on the race, considering Sen. Mark Grisanti is the last sitting Republican in the chamber to have supported same - sex marriage in 2011).

Bloomberg also once tried to draw in a few handpicked candidates to replace him, including an invitation last year to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for New York City mayor.

Chinese - American activists, angered by last week's conviction of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, are seeking a candidate to run against Brooklyn District...

In a federal lawsuit filed today, the party claimed that Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester county executive and candidate for governor, threatened to «decapitate» party leadership in a bid to win the Independence Party's support as he ran for re-election in Westchester last year.

Democratic candidates John Parete, running in the towns of Denning, Hardenburgh, Olive and Shandaken that make up the new District 22, and Don Gregorius, running to represent West Hurley and Woodstock in District 23, both spoke last week about getting lawn signs out in the coming days, as well as about the many Meet the Candidate events they expected to attend.

He has been a rumored candidate to replace Mr. Ragusa, who angered some party insiders when he ran a primary opponent against Mr. Ulrich's State Senate bid last year — the latest in what has been an ongoing feud between the party's two factions.

The last time a mayoral candidate won the election running on a minor - party line was in 1913.

Last fall when I was a first - time candidate in Westmoreland, even though I was running a very uphill battle, he came out to support me the night before the election, and every time I go to support him (like in the St. Patrick's Day parade) he asks about our town.

The Convention People's Party, (CPP), last week settled on a businessman, Nana Gabby Nketia as the running mate to its presidential candidate Ivor Kobina Greenstreet for the December elections.

The last time a minor party candidate achieved ballot access was in 2000, when Pat Buchanan ran on the Reform Party line.